Churches across Southeast Texas working together, so no pastor serves alone and no church does ministry alone.
Connecting. Equipping. Strengthening.“I believe the association is strongest when our churches encourage one another, share what they have, and work together on things that are difficult to do alone.”
My desire is to get to know our pastors and churches, hear what God is doing in each community, and come alongside you in ways that are genuinely helpful.
Adrian Ferrari · Director of Missions
Read the full letterThe association is not a church. It exists to serve the churches, helping them accomplish together what would be hard for any one congregation to do alone.
Building real relationships among pastors, churches, leaders and ministry partners.
Providing training, resources, coaching and practical ministry support.
Helping congregations become healthier, better led and more intentional in reaching their communities.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.
Ecclesiastes 4:9–10
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Trinity River Baptist Association is a fellowship of autonomous churches in Liberty and the surrounding communities of Southeast Texas. Our churches cooperate voluntarily to advance the gospel, strengthen congregations, support pastors and carry out ministry together.
To see healthy, gospel-centered churches working together to reach their communities, develop leaders, strengthen families, and multiply disciples and churches throughout Southeast Texas and beyond.
To connect, equip and strengthen local churches by encouraging pastors, developing leaders, providing resources, fostering cooperation, and supporting church planting and revitalization for the advancement of the gospel.
Each member church keeps its own leadership, governance and ministry decisions. TRBA works alongside willing churches and never takes control of them.
I’m amazed by what God is doing through the churches of the Trinity River Baptist Association, and I’m honored to be part of this association and to serve alongside you.
My desire is to get to know our pastors and churches, hear what God is doing in each community, and come alongside you in ways that are genuinely helpful. I believe the association is strongest when our churches encourage one another, share what they have, and work together on things that are difficult to do alone.
That may mean encouraging a pastor, equipping leaders, supporting church planting or revitalization, sharing resources, or simply showing up when a church needs help. The local church leads its own ministry. Our role is to strengthen and support the churches God has placed throughout this region.
I look forward to building relationships with you and discovering how we can serve together. Thank you for welcoming me into the work God is doing through TRBA.
Adrian FerrariDirector of Missions
Adrian Ferrari has accepted the call to become the next Director of Missions/Associational Missional Strategist for the Trinity River Baptist Association, beginning in 2027. Born in New York, raised in the Chicago area, and of Uruguayan descent, Adrian is a pastor, church planter, missionary, and Bible teacher who entered full-time ministry in 2013. His ministry has taken him from the Midwest to Argentina and New England.
In Argentina, Adrian planted Iglesia Bautista de Cuyo in 2017. The church multiplied by planting another church in 2018.
In 2020, Adrian planted FaithWay Community Church in Connecticut. Over the next four years, through the work of local churches and in partnership with the North American Mission Board’s SEND Network, four additional churches were planted and one church was revitalized. FaithWay also hosted Connecticut’s first Southern Baptist church planting resident.
As a SEND Network Church Planting Champion, Adrian connected churches, planters, and ministry partners to help churches develop and send leaders for church planting. His ministry experience also includes serving as a senior pastor, revitalization pastor, associate pastor, and next-generation pastor. Adrian has also led groups on international missions trips, including trips to India alongside missionaries with the International Mission Board.
Adrian teaches and preaches in both English and Spanish and brings deep experience in Hispanic and cross-cultural ministry. He earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from Clarks Summit University, formerly Baptist Bible College & Seminary, in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. He also earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Liberty University and is completing a Doctor of Ministry in Ministry Leadership at Liberty University. His doctoral work focuses on helping local churches identify, develop, deploy, and multiply spiritually mature leaders.
As he begins serving TRBA in 2027, Adrian’s heart for association ministry is to come alongside churches with encouragement, relationships, training, and practical support. He wants pastors to know they are not doing ministry alone and to see that being part of TRBA genuinely helps their church.
Adrian co-hosts Men After God, where he leads verse-by-verse Bible studies. He is also writing a book on the life of David for imperfect men who follow a perfect God. Adrian and his wife, Krystal, have five children.
“I want pastors to look at TRBA and say: being part of this association genuinely helps our church.”
We don't measure ourselves by the number of meetings or programs. We ask whether pastors are better supported, leaders are being developed, struggling churches are getting real help, and new churches are being planted by local churches.
Every church in the Trinity River Baptist Association, with Sunday schedules and contact information. Search by name, town or pastor.
From Rye and Thicket down to Smith Point and High Island. Tap a town to see its churches. Gold rings mark the communities in our Vision 2036 church planting goal.
Liberty County is one of the fastest-growing counties in Texas, and many of the families moving here speak Spanish. We are praying toward five new Spanish-language churches by 2036, each planted by a local sending church with TRBA coordinating, training and coming alongside.
Plant our first Spanish-language church in Liberty, sent out by a local church. Listen to and learn from the Hispanic pastors already serving in TRBA, and begin Spanish-language leadership training.
Plant the next two churches with TRBA sending churches and Send Network Español. The Liberty church begins raising up its own leaders.
Plant the fourth and fifth churches, with some planters coming from our first new churches. Keep training the next residents so the pipeline never runs empty.
See all five established, led by local leaders and planting again.
If your church is part of Trinity River, you don't have to figure it out alone. Here's where we can come alongside you, never to replace the work of your church.
Someone who knows your pastor by name, a monthly huddle, two free leadership coaching calls and a free DISC assessment.
See howPastor Essentials, small group training and help raising up leaders through Finding David.
See howA one-year residency that helps your church send a planter and become a multiplying church.
See howMen's and marriage conferences planned for 2027, at a reduced cost for member churches.
See what's plannedMission trips our churches take together, and the Block Party Trailer for community events.
See howTrusted ministries, podcasts and tools we recommend for your men, marriages and groups.
Browse resourcesNeed something that isn't listed? Tell us what you need and we'll reply within two business days.
We want every pastor in our association to know someone is in their corner, with relationships that encourage them long before problems arise.
As part of TRBA, your pastor has access to John Maxwell Certified coaches and a certified DISC trainer. We'll start with a four-month pilot with a handful of churches and grow from there.
Most conflict and burnout in ministry isn't about doctrine. It's about people who are wired differently trying to work together. DISC helps a pastor understand his natural leadership and communication style, where he's strong, where he's likely to get stuck under pressure, and how to lead people who aren't like him. It gives a pastor and his leaders a shared, non-threatening language for working through tension, building a team and making decisions together. For new pastors, churches in transition and leadership teams, it's one of the simplest ways to prevent problems before they start.
Local churches plant churches. The association helps them do it.
We're building a new church planting pipeline together with our member churches. TRBA won't plant churches apart from them. Our role is to be a catalyst, so that planting new churches becomes part of the mission our churches share.
Instead of sending a future planter away for training, a TRBA church hosts him as a resident. He serves, learns and leads inside a real church, under its pastor, while he's assessed, trained and coached. When he launches, he goes out with a sending church behind him.
Jesus sent His church to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19–20). Planting new churches is one of the clearest ways to do that, so we'll help any member church set up a church planting residency.
A man with a possible call to plant is recognized, often through his church's DAVID process.
He and his family go through church planter assessment with Send Network, alongside his pastor's discernment.
He serves in a sending church: preaching, leading, making disciples and learning to plant, with Pastor Essentials training, a mentor and regular coaching.
He launches with his sending church, partner churches from across TRBA, and Southern Baptist support.
Coaching continues after launch, and the new church becomes a sending church itself.
Want your church to become a multiplying church? TRBA will walk with you to host a resident, using a one-year plan that fits your church's size. The resident learns your church's ministries and then launches either a new, independent church or a campus of your church that becomes self-governing over time. Talk with us.
Is your church praying about planting, or do you know a man who may be called to plant?
We want sending churches and potential planters at the table while this pipeline is designed.
We'll draw on the North American Mission Board's Send Network, including Send Network Español for Hispanic church planting.
Spanish-speaking and bilingual churches are already part of our association. We want to learn from and partner with them, train bilingual leaders, and help English- and Spanish-speaking churches reach Southeast Texas together.
Varias iglesias de nuestra asociación tienen cultos y estudios bíblicos en español. Queremos fortalecer a las congregaciones hispanas, capacitar a líderes bilingües y trabajar juntos, iglesias de habla inglesa y española, para alcanzar a nuestras comunidades con el evangelio.
Para más información, llame a la oficina: 936-336-9232.
You can teach ministry skills. You cannot manufacture godly character.
If one of your deacons resigned tomorrow, who would replace him? Finding David is a simple, biblical way to recognize the men God is already preparing in your church and invest in them before a position opens.
Hosted at our member churches and open to every church. Member churches attend at a reduced cost. Dates will be posted on our events page and in Newsplash.
Challenging men to grow spiritually, lead their families faithfully and engage in their churches. Led by Men After God.
Biblically grounded help for couples in communication, conflict and growing together spiritually, with Thomas and Lysandra Osterkamp of Family Meeting.
Practical sessions for Sunday School teachers and group leaders on leading discussion, caring for members and making disciples.
We want every TRBA church to have a part in the Great Commission beyond its own town. TRBA will organize mission trips our churches can take together, so even a small congregation can send a team.
Disaster relief after hurricanes and floods, and serving alongside new churches in Southeast Texas.
Serving with Send Network church plants in cities that need new churches.
Short-term trips alongside Southern Baptist missionaries with the IMB and other missionaries we partner with, including in Latin America.
It's not just a block party. It's a block party with a purpose. Any member church, or a ministry of a member church, can borrow the evangelistic block party trailer for an outreach event.
We're preparing church health coaching, pastor fellowship gatherings and the Finding David leadership cohort with our churches. Want to be first in line?
Some needs are best met by ministries that specialize in them. These partners help us serve the men, marriages and families in our churches.
A podcast for Christian husbands and fathers, and the men who lead them. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday, co-hosted by Dr. Dustin Alley, Luke Sorensen and TRBA's own Adrian Ferrari.
Thomas and Lysandra Osterkamp help couples and families build the meaningful relationships they want, drawing on more than 20 years of marriage and 25 years of ministry. They host a weekly podcast and speak at conferences and retreats.
Men of Valor (MOV) helps men grow in their relationship with Jesus through annual conferences and weekly discipleship. It began in 2016 with a men's conference at Liberty Church in Lula, Georgia, and now holds gatherings on both coasts.
As Southern Baptist churches, we have access to resources far beyond what any association could build alone. We'll help you find and use the right ones.
The North American Mission Board's church planting network. Like us, it starts from the conviction that every church can help plant churches.
Bible studies, Sunday School curriculum, books and training for every age group in your church.
Association-wide gatherings and what's going on at our member churches: revivals, VBS, fall festivals, men's breakfasts and more.
Our monthly newsletter goes to every member church and anyone who signs up. Each issue is posted here too.
Open positions in the association, churches seeking pastors, and a path for men who sense God's call to ministry.
Member churches currently searching for a pastor or staff member are listed here.
To list your church's opening, call the association office at 936-336-9232.
Pastors and ministers looking for a place to serve in Southeast Texas can send a résumé to the association office, and we will share it with churches that are searching.
Contact: 936-336-9232 · 2401 Grand Avenue, Liberty, TX 77575
If you live in our area and sense God calling you to plant a church or pastor one of ours, you don't need to move away for training. Pastor Essentials is a one-year course in biblical training, taught on Monday evenings by our own pastors. It's open to anyone, and you can start at any time.
Read about pastor support →Is your church praying about starting a new work, or do you sense a call to plant? We're building our church planting pipeline with our churches and want to hear from you.
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God created you and loves you. He wants you to know Him and to experience the full life He intended.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”John 3:16
Every one of us has sinned, going our own way instead of God's. Sin breaks our relationship with God, and we cannot fix it by being good enough.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”Romans 3:23
Jesus Christ, God's Son, died on the cross in our place and rose again from the dead. He is the only way back to God.
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”Romans 5:8
Salvation is a gift. You receive it by turning from your sin and trusting Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”Romans 10:9
If you have prayed to receive Christ, or you have questions, we would love to talk with you and help you find a church family nearby.
Being part of Trinity River Baptist Association isn't about buying services. It's about having a family of churches and an association staff that come alongside your pastor and your people: in the good seasons, the hard ones, and everything in between.
Before there's ever a crisis, your pastor has someone who calls, visits, prays and asks how he and his family are really doing.
When a pastor resigns, a storm hits or a church hits a hard season, we're there to walk with you, not hand you a brochure.
Training, conferences, coaching and church planting that a single congregation would struggle to provide on its own.
Call or write us. We'd love to hear your church's story.
We'll visit, meet your pastor and leaders, and answer your questions about how we work together.
Every church is autonomous. Your congregation decides through its own process whether to join.
Member churches give monthly to support our shared ministry, and we begin coming alongside you right away.
Thank you. Your faithful giving is what makes all of this possible.
Every pastor lunch, conference, coaching conversation and new church starts with churches like yours choosing to cooperate. If there's a way we can serve you better, we want to hear it.
Our churches serve their neighbors through food pantries, clothing closets, benevolence help, recovery groups and more. Find a church ministry near you, or reach out and we'll help connect you.
Member churches can list their food pantry, clothing closet, recovery group or other ministry here, with days, hours and how to get help.